language & education

Language Courses

FranceThe Language Center, Ferney-Voltaire offers English and French language classes and personalized training for children and adults. They have been helping people pass English and French exams for 18 years in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. Call for an appointment: +33 450 40 58 61

Improve your French by Singing: With Isabelle Lenzi every Friday from 12:30-13:30 in Geneva."Améliorez votre français en chantant" is designed to help you improve your accent while exploring the wealth of vocabulary and grammar in the spoken French language. Singing will help you discover and memorize French idioms and typical expressions. It also helps develop good listening skills and better perceive the musicality of the language.

The Language Center: offers English and French language classes and personalized training for children and adults. They have been helping people pass English and French exams for 18 years in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere.

The Community Kitchen - Conversation Cafe could be the perfect solution to getting your French up to the next level: a free conversation cafe every Wednesday night in Geneva, led by someone with a degree from the Arts faculty at the University of Geneva. You pay for your drinks, and talk. If you can’t quite manage to get your sentences out correctly, the organizers will help you. Reserve your place by phoning +41 76 504 8955, and join their Facebook group.

Social Clubs are a good way to learn or improve your French - not only to make communication and integration much easier, but also because it's a fun opportunity to get to know new people if you take part in group language courses!

CERN offers language training courses for its personnel and their family as well as employees of firms working on the site. Please check the site for details.

The CERN Women's Club (CWC) also offers language courses for its members. You do not need to be affiliated with CERN, but you'll need to become a member of the CWC.

Tips: Even if you don't understand what you're reading keep going. Eventually your mind will start picking up familiar phrases, and once what starts happening it will become easier to learn. Another tip - singing along with music will help with enunciation and pronunciation, and it will help you get the 'feel' of the language.